Daniel Aaron Liss

advent

Urban panoramic landscapes yield up lyrical surprises when you call the wall from your cellphone.

equal parts architecture, full-scale model, and advent calendar, these images take advantage of the unique size and aspect ratio of the IAC building's giant screen. an interplay between urban and rural, public and private, and a sort of imagined before and after builds as visitors interact via their cellphones.

Backgroundafter working for the last few years in tiny 320 x 240 canvases of video, this project uses the expanse of 8160 x 768 -> 120 x 12 feet large.

Audienceanybody in the space with cellphones...

User Scenariodiscovering a phone number among the background images, users call in and receive instructions of how to interact with the screen.

Implementationvideo, giant photographic backgrounds, asterisk, java, processing, and various servers playing well together...